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This 'brutal' cold ...

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filthypride · 30/11/2023 00:04

Has anyone else had it...?
My timeline has been..

3 days of awful ear ache (zero sleep due to pain)
Day 4 nose started dripping like a tap
Day 5 dry cough started, nose still dripping
Day 6 Sinus pain, headache, nose switching between bunged and dripping, phlegmy cough, nausea and mild to moderate body aches.

I can honestly say I have NEVER EVER had a cold like it.

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WellWellSaidTheRockingChair · 01/12/2023 19:11

Sorry, that message was meant for @GladioliandSweetPeas - pointing out everyone is difference.

hope you feel better soon OP.

BigMandsTattooPortfolio · 01/12/2023 19:44

My cough is a lot better today, though the trajectory of this bug is that you think you’re better and then the bastard comes back. Don’t think I’ve had it as badly as many others on here. I pretty much have the constitution of an ox usually, but this has been grim and has gone on for nearly a month.

BigMandsTattooPortfolio · 01/12/2023 19:45

Hope everyone feels better soon. 💐

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LindorDoubleChoc · 01/12/2023 20:18

I'm on my 4th viral infection since 7th September. I've also had an infected lymph node separately after one of them.

The current bout started 8 days ago and I still have a raging sore throat and hacking cough. Never known a season like it and I blame covid in some way. I've tested loads of times (not this current bout because the thought of putting something down my throat and the subsequent retching and coughing is just too much). I've only been out of the house once in the last 8 days and I wore a mask. I've had to cancel 5 or 6 social events this month, a piano lesson, and wfh throughout although I'm supposed to go into the office twice a week.

Darklane · 01/12/2023 20:42

Yes, we had it a few weeks ago. Worst cold I’ve ever had for sure. DH caught it first then kindly gave it to me. He was over the worst in two weeks but mine went on for four weeks. Headaches, earache, runny nose, streaming.The most horrendous sore throat, felt like razor blades even just drinking, couldn’t face food. Just couldn’t get warm at all. Such a cough it was making me sick & slept really badly, just a snatched hour here & there & always woke up with head & throat completely blocked & coughing so hard made me sick to bring stuff up, gross. Still feel completely whacked out by it.

QuestionableMouse · 01/12/2023 20:44

tescocreditcard · 30/11/2023 00:13

Mines easing up now - after 5 weeksShock

Same! First morning where I didn't get up can cough like mad

sadeyedladyofthelowlandsea · 01/12/2023 21:01

I have found my people!

God, it's horrendous. I keep coughing to the point of puking, the stuff coming out of my nose feels like I'm leaking brain fluid, my lungs literally crackle, and I'm just like a big jelly mould made of achiness. It's not like flu or covid at all. The only thing that seems to ease it a bit is sleeping/lying down in a semi upright position so that the 'stuff' doesn't back up so much. I've also found that as soon as I lie down, my throat seems to dry up completely which is a bit weird.

I've been living on yoghurt & ice lollies because they're easier to swallow than water whilst still keeping me hydrated. 4 weeks & still going...

mathanxiety · 01/12/2023 21:20

DD4 is still in the thick of it five weeks since her symptoms first started. It hit me earlier this week. We both did a covid test - negative.

RestingCatsArseFace · 01/12/2023 21:20

My brutal cold seemed to be just that on Monday, negative test. I know they don't always work.

Yesterday went immediately to positive, was feeling worse, never seen a test work so fast. I will be back to mask wearing.

TimeIhadaNameChange · 01/12/2023 21:32

Interesting what people are saying about sickness as I thought we'd been unlucky and caught two bugs in a week and a half. But maybe it's all connected.

Dd (3.5) projectile vomited last Monday morning, but was fine a minute later and v peeved to be off nursery and on a clean diet for the day. I threw up that evening, then had the runs, and didn't feel normal nor have an appetite til Sunday.

Yesterday she'd spent a lot of the night awake (and cheerful), was miserable before nursery and miserable going in (but had no other symptoms). Unsurprisingly, she slept in the afternoon, then again for two hours on my lap. She slept fine overnight, though had a temperature, and was whingey first thing, but was fine once she got up. Has been peaky all day, still has temperature and says her head and eyes hurt.

I had the itchiness nose ever this morning, sneezing constantly (1/2 roll of loo paper down) and felt drained all afternoon. Will go to bed soon. Appetite gone again.

Hopefully we'll both be fine soon, but by the sounds of this this will linger for a while.

shsh6 · 01/12/2023 22:58

I'v had it, been ill for weeks. Now on antibiotics for a chest infection, hopefully this is the end of it.

Nottodaty · 02/12/2023 13:26

2 weeks in started to feel better in the week….yesterday it returned shaky bones, snuffles and headache - & brain fog! I feel so grumpy and fed up now :(

Ofa · 02/12/2023 15:11

There’s an awful coughy cold going round our school, a couple of children have chest infections / pneumonia, I’ve had a heavy cold/flu for a week and do feel pretty crappy. It’s so hard to sleep cos constantly coughing/sweating.

I suspect it’s something to do with the pandemic but dunno if is a new strain of covid or if we all have weird immunity after the lockdowns. Coronaviruses mutate all the time.

I did a couple of lateral flow tests for covid but wasn’t surprised to find them negative, they were extremely unreliable even when they were new. The first time I caught covid I did daily LFTs for a week and they were all negative, but a mid-week PCR test picked it up.

ticktickticktickBOOM · 02/12/2023 15:14

What region of the country is everyone with this illness?

Just so I can avoid as it sounds vile . . . . . .

QuestionableMouse · 02/12/2023 15:50

North East - it's been right through my family!

IHopeYouStepOnALegPiece · 02/12/2023 16:12

ticktickticktickBOOM · 02/12/2023 15:14

What region of the country is everyone with this illness?

Just so I can avoid as it sounds vile . . . . . .

Denmark!

but visited London 4 days before 😁

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filthypride · 02/12/2023 16:41

I'm London. It rampaged though my family within days.

Mum got it, terrible sore throat, sneezes and a bit of a cough.
Few days later me with all my hideous symptoms.
My son's girlfriend was next and she was bedridden and last was my father who started with the drippy nose, followed by one session of vomiting and now he a cough.

I am feel blah today. Can't quite put my finger on it. Almost puked this morning, that was gross. Every time I cough I feel like I could easily be sick. I'm coughing up 'stuff' every time.

To say this is anything like a normal common cold is incorrect. I've had normal colds and it was nothing like this,

This is not like flu because I am not sweating profusely, shivering etc, but the relentless burning sinus pain, headache, nausea, mild body, sneezing pretty constantly, aches, earache, tap nose and chesty cough is rough.

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newusern99 · 02/12/2023 16:45

@filthypride it could be flu. Last December I had a mild fever and was a bit achey. DS had a headache and fever which was unlike him so I bought some influenza LFTs. It was influenza A. Not all flu is full on symptoms. It’s just like covid. You can have any number of symptoms from mild to full on in bed for two weeks plus.

QuestionableMouse · 02/12/2023 20:11

I started with a horrible cold in Oct, felt really shit for a week, got a bit better, felt worse, had antibiotics, felt better, felt worse and now in starting to actually feel okay!

ANightingale · 02/12/2023 20:17

I seem to have had it twice within two months, although it hadn't fully gone away when it came back so I don't know if it's the same one. The sinus pain is like nothing else, and a weird sore throat in the first stages that kept shifting from side to side. As a pp mentioned - the snot and phlegm is endless, I have struggled to stay hydrated and got through a ridiculous number of tissues. Still coughing.

ticktickticktickBOOM · 02/12/2023 23:05

It could be multiple colds and illnesses in some sort of unfortunate winter pile on. When your immune system is knocked you can catch everything going. I wonder if covid weakened peoples immune systems?
That would be quite an effective biowarfare weapon.

HerbalRefreshmentt · 03/12/2023 01:51

I had to get antibiotics Friday for ear infections (both sides!) and in the last 8 hours feels like things may be turning a corner. Been taking a regular decongestant with my paracetamol and that helps. I may even have an appetite returning! Slept loads today though which is probably why I'm awake now:/

In London and suspect I picked this up at a hospital visit two weeks ago. It started as a dry cough for 4 days until the sinus stuff kicked in.

hellswelshy · 03/12/2023 02:02

Nearly 4 weeks in here. Started as nausea/upset stomach and headache then eased, then full on cold/cough/sore throat/aching ears. So much phlegm. I had antibiotics for 5 days. Felt a bit better. Now the tickly lingering cough has me up after being asleep for 3 hours...its painful and wearing me out :-(

Museum10660 · 03/12/2023 02:07

a couple of people i know seem to have the "cold"

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filthypride · 03/12/2023 08:45

@newusern99

I am unfortunately all too familiar with the flu and at the least I'm in bed for 7-10 days. I've always been the same. I literally can't even lift my head off the pillow when I have it.

What I have is definitely a cold, just a really shit you one.

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